Chapter 187: Three Thousand to Seventy Thousand
See the port of Minahir again, the buildings are still those buildings, but the atmosphere is completely different.
In order to prevent being disturbed by some indigenous creatures in the wetland, Minahir Harbour used the original topography to dig a moat about tens of meters wide and connected to the sea at both ends, and built a 50-meter-wide curved arch bridge over the river. The curved arch bridge, the only land access between Minasil Harbour and the wetlands, is now occupied by a group of fishmen.
It's not right to say that it is a group, the dense fish heads that almost fill the entire moat, to say the least, are one or two thousand giants. This is only in the moat, hidden at the sea end of the harbor - Minahill Bay, there must be more fish-people underwater.
It seems that the situation in Migang is much more serious than he expected, I originally thought that there would be at most 10,000 or 20,000 fishmen, but I didn't expect that this number would increase several times. Leo thought it was strange that such a large number of fish people must have been the sum of the fish people living on the wetland coastline. In other words, the fish-men of the wetlands came out to block the port of Minahir.
What did Minahir Harbor do to make the fish-people in the wetlands think so much about it, and they came to gather people to make trouble?
If it is understandable that the fishmen of the Blackwater Swamp and the Bluecheek Swamp near this port city are running to make trouble, but the fishmen of the Falling Swamp and the Salt Foam Swamp, which are far away from the port, also come running, and things are strange.
The fish-men who lived on the four swampy shorelines near the sea in the wetlands all came to besiege Minethil Harbor, and Leo instinctively felt that something was wrong.
Could it be that there is a mastermind behind the scenes?
Putting aside the thoughts in my head for the time being, now is not the time to consider whether there is a mastermind behind it, and the port of Minahir can't just be surrounded like this, and kill the fish-men crowded in the moat first.
"Prepare to attack!"
The battle order was quickly conveyed, and in the face of an enemy several times larger than himself, the three thousand soldiers led by Leo did not have the slightest timidity and quickly lined up the battle formation.
The movement of the 3,000 people was not small, and the fish-men spotted the human army from the wetlands, and in a burst of shouting, groups of fish-people slaughtered Leo and them.
The thumping of gunfire rang out, and dozens of fishmen who rushed to the forefront fell, and the five hundred warriors, who had become accustomed to using muskets, opened fire first. Mixed with the thumping of guns was the whizzing of arrows from a thousand archers, and unlike muskets that killed a fish-man with a few shots, an archer's sharp arrows killed an enemy with less than two arrows on average.
The strength of the warriors themselves is why the archers are reluctant to use muskets.
The fall of their companions did not frighten the fishmen, but instead aroused the murderous side of their surnames, and the shouts became louder and louder, and the fish-people quickly approached each other in the face of the attacks of the human army.
Whoa......
Walls of bone rose from the ground, creating a makeshift line of defense for a far outnumbered human army as the fishmen approached. The hideous bone spurs on the bone wall warn the fish-men who rush forward, don't get close, if you do, you will die.
The fish-men who rushed in front of them wanted to dodge after seeing the bone wall, but their companions behind them could not see it, and the front slowed down but still rushed behind it, so tragedy happened - the fish-man who rushed in front of him was pushed in front of the bone wall by his companions, and then screamed and hit the bone wall, and his body was pierced by bone spurs one by one big hole, and after a struggle, he died in pain.
Leo pinched his fingers a few times, making a few crackling sounds between his joints, and he watched with interest at the rushing crowd of fish, ready to start the show.
Performance?
Yes, it's a show.
In the face of the crowd of fish that came ashore, Leo was under no pressure.
When he first came to Minethil Harbor by boat, he killed a lot of fishmen who tried to attack the fleet, knowing that although there were many of them, their strength was not strong, almost all of them were mid-level strength, and high-level ones were rare, as for the legendary realm, they had not yet sensed it within the range of his and Pelision's perception.
A group of opponents who are not strong, for Leo, who is very good at group killing, such a battle is very easy.
Clusters of green poisonous gas exploded in the crowd of fish, and with the strength of Leo's current legendary realm, the poison explosion technique was much stronger than the last time.
As the poisonous mist spread, all the fishmen who came into contact with it couldn't help but let out a terrible scream, and the part of their bodies that came into contact with the poisonous mist was like being poured with concentrated sulfuric acid at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The poison explosion technique has created a 'vacuum' in the fish crowd.
White objects the size of a finger appeared in the area where Leo was, and these white objects were teeth that had not appeared in a long time.
Leo, who has been promoted to a legendary powerhouse, naturally does not need to be as before, when casting the skill of teeth, he also has to flick his lower fingers and use gestures to match the casting of spells, now he only needs a slight puff of mana, and the teeth can be successfully cast, and nearly a hundred bone teeth the size of fingers will appear.
And with a slight drumming of mana, he can do it three times a second.
One second, three teeth, three hundred bone teeth!
Leo unleashed his teeth to deal with the crowd of fish, pouring out like a barrage of rain of bone teeth, and the speed at which the fish-men fell multiplied. Leo alone achieved no worse results than the 1,000 archers and 500 musketeers. The addition of a strong man has a great impact on the battle situation, which can be seen.
Leo-sama is so strong! Legend, what a desirable realm.
Verry and the other four high-ranking Master Chiefs looked at Leo with respect and envy. These high-level fighters are only one step away from the Legendary Realm, but this step is a gap, with the qualifications of the five of them, if no miracle happens, this life will stop here, just like most of the high-level fighters.
As for Pelicion, who was beside Leo and thought that the fish-man was not worth his own shot, and was looking up at the sky and not knowing what he was thinking, the five ignored him gorgeously.
As Leo's powerful fighter and transportation mount, the presence of the red dragon after transforming into a human form is really not ordinarily low. Who let him not make a single hand in the previous month and a half of fighting?
As the battle progressed, more and more fishmen died, and by the time the crowd of fishmen struggled through the firepower blockade to less than ten meters away from their opponents, the number of their deaths had exceeded four thousand. However, it is strange that there are no corpses of fishmen on the ground, but this is completely unnoticed by the fishmen who are full of brains killing humans.
The death of thousands of fishmen made Leo appetizing, the more corpses he had, the faster his skeleton army would form, and when the sea of skulls was formed, he might not be able to overthrow a legion with one person. As long as there are enough thugs under his command, even the legendary powerhouses can be piled to death. Thinking of this, Leo couldn't help but lick his lips, he was really looking forward to the formation of the Sea of Skulls.
As a necromancer without a sea of bones, how can this be? No matter how unprofessional you are, you can't be unprofessional, right?
The scene of Leo and his troops fighting with the fishmen outside the port of Minahir alarmed the guards in the harbor, although the harbor guards wanted to help, but they were not strong enough, and now the security forces to protect the entire port were overstretched, and they could not organize a team out of the city to meet them.
Fortunately, to the peace of mind of the guards, the army that fought against the fishmen was very strong, and when facing the fishmen who were several times their size, they were like standing on a reef, standing tall in the attack of the fishmen like a tide, not only were they not overwhelmed by the crowd attacks of the fishmen, but they continued to kill the fishmen with their stable and effective attacks.
The fish-men were killed in groups, and the fish heads in the moat became thinner, and the commotion here finally alarmed the fish-men farther away, and the seemingly quiet Minethil Bay undercurrent surged, and fish heads emerged from the sea.
Leo, who saw this scene through the vision shared by the crows, couldn't help but be very excited, he wished that the more fishmen came, the better, once the fishmen came ashore, it would be much easier to deal with them, and he was most afraid that these guys would hide in the sea and not come out.
It's our home on land, so I'm afraid you fishmen won't make it?
Fish-people have their own unique way of delivering messages, and the fish-men that have emerged from the bay of Minahill have begun to press in the direction of Leo and them, apparently trying to overwhelm the human reinforcements from the wetlands with crowd tactics.
The guards in the harbor immediately noticed the movement of the fishmen, and they did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent heralds to send a signal of danger to the friendly forces fighting outside the city with trumpet flags. But what made the port guard frustrated was that the troops outside the city were so confident in themselves that they didn't have the intention of retreating.
These arrogant guys, do they think that they can block the onslaught of tens of thousands of fishmen with so many people? After several danger signals in succession were ignored by the other side, the guards of Minahill Harbour couldn't help but curse the friendly forces for not knowing what to do.
Without Pelicion's presence, Leo would have led the group back when he noticed a flood of fishmen in Minethil Bay. In the face of the attack of tens of thousands of fishmen, even Leo does not have that confidence, and the strength of the crowd tactics is not so simple. The lessons of blood and tears of countless powerful beings have taught us that no matter how strong you are in the face of sufficient quantity, you will not escape the fate of tragedy - Akmund the Polluter is a typical example of this.
If you can catch all the fishmen that come in this time, it will be much easier to complete the task next. Leo, who scattered the crows, had already found that the number of fishmen coming in was around 50,000, and with the 20,000 who were fighting them here, they had attracted about 70,000 fishmen. Counting the 30,000 or so fishmen who pinned down the Minethil Harbor Guard in the harbor, the fishmen besieging Minethil Harbor were almost exhausted.
With the resources of the wetland coastline, feeding 100,000 fishmen is already the limit, and it is impossible to have more.
"Viri, give the order to go down and fight and retreat, leaving enough space for tens of thousands of fishmen to go ashore between the troops and the port of Minethir."
If you want to catch all the fish-people who are coming in, how can you not let these guys go ashore?
Leo is confident that as long as there is enough space for them to land, these guys will never fail to come up.
Fishman, fishman, you have to cooperate with me obediently.
(Thanks to book friends: (de) the little ghost's tip ^_^)